Comments on: Episode 108: A lot of Paths

By: Rolf

Rolf — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:17:20 +0000

Your video will be part of the next episode – so don’t expect to learn too much.

By: w_nightshade

w_nightshade — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:17:43 +0000

I use the path tool ALL the time. I work in weird, hand-tooled text images, and it allows me a level of control that I really like. I am really looking forward to Episode 2, covering the control mechanisms. i am pretty good with the Paths tool, but I hope to learn a trick or two I did not know about (a regular happening when watching MTG).

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:20:26 +0000

I love the path (Bezier) tool! Once you learn how to use it to draw a path, you can make any path you want, however complex it may be.

I have some .FLV videos that I’ve made for the highschool Info Tech (a.k.a. computers) classes that I can share with you Rolf. One set of videos on the path tool demonstrates how to use it in Macromedia Freehand, the other set demonstrates a possible usage in GIMP.

The only issue is with the Freehand videos, the file that I use to demonstrate the technique of the pen tool is not my own file. I used some files from an Adobe Illustrator course that I took many years ago. The techniques are the same, but it’s not my document – it’s a reproduction of documents that I used to learn the path tool. I’m happy to let you view the videos though.

The GIMP videos are my own of course so if you’d like to use them, please let me know.

If you’re interested in my offer, email me and I can make those files easily accessible for you.

LaterZ!
Darren!!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:02:24 +0000

Thanks so much for this awesome tutorial! I had always wondered how paths work and I’ve been following the show for a while on miro. I know putting this show together takes a lot of time and patience and I really appreciate all the work you’ve put into it. This is so much better than reading the docs, especially for new users who aren’t so computer literate. You kick ass!

By: americo gobbo

americo gobbo — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:20:27 +0000

Thanks Rolf, the the archive that I downloaded via torrent or http (downthemall) has a md5 different. Via wget is ok.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:09:03 +0000

Please check the file with md5sum in a terminal window.

xxx$ md5sum meetthegimp108.mp4

the result should be:

215823284c106cfb79925cda80ba0553 meetthegimp108.mp4

If it is, the download is complete and the file not corrupted. Then the error is in your system. If you get a different result, the download is at fault, Then try:

xxx$ wget http://meetthegimp.org/torrents/meetthegimp108.mp4

By: americo gobbo

americo gobbo — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:08:07 +0000

Hi, I made many times the download of .mp4 and all times when I open in totem movie player says that the file is incomplete… I’ve proved open in VLC, but this isn’t audio. thanks
americo

By: Mathias

Mathias — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:22:09 +0000

Well, you’ve guessed it Philippe… Three weeks ago I was creating a drawing in Inkscape. Then I wanted to apply a perspective to it and recognized that Inkscape can’t do this (it has a tool for it but it wasn’t working the right way). So I simply exported the drawing, imported it in GIMP as a path, applied the perspective tool, exported the path again and imported it in Inkscape. I was so impressed how cross-compatible those programs are…

Rolf, that was one of the best shows in the last months! You’ve shown so many important steps. Maybe one thing to say: the stroke path tool has not only the solid line setting as you did several times in this video. It can also apply the current brush to the path and emulate the brush dynamics. So if you set hardness, opacity and size to random, choose a fancy brush and apply it to your path you will get a nice border e.g. You can find a nice example at http://www.gedankenquirl.de/gallery/index.php?twg_album=Blog%2F768___080702+Kongsberg+Jazzfestival&twg_show=DSCF0048.JPG

By: Philippe Demartin

Philippe Demartin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:28:26 +0000

You’re right, Gimp don’t have any pretension to go against vector graphic software like inkscape, but the fact that you can export, and save path, give to gimp the”bridge” capacity to stand at the border between pixel and vector and ease the cross edition.

By: monoceros84

monoceros84 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:22:41 +0000

Well, even though GIMP allows some vector operations you’ll always have to consider that you save a pixel image in the end. So the best advantage of tools as Inkscape is will be lost…

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:54:09 +0000

GIMP is an adequate vexel illustration app. I use Photoshop, Illustrator and Inkscape for illustration work, but there are a lot of things about GIMP that I enjoy. Vectors will never be pixels, and vice-versa.

So even though some might not consider it the ideal tool for vector-style illustration, here’s an example in GIMP:

WIP: http://www.friendlyskies.net/currentdesktop.png
WIP in a composition: http://www.flickr.com/photos/porkfriedrice/2805210344/

…anyway, that’s 100% Gnu Image Manipulation

There used to be a plugin that I used there to do the background sky. It would render clouds and the sun, and was very nice…sadly I don’t have it around anymore.